The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
A coward's courage is in his tongue.
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.